Delivery apparatus for paper-rolls.



No. 628,257. Patented July 4, 1899.

H. J. WENDORFF.

DELIVERY APPARATUS FOR PAPER ROLLS.

(Application filed Apr. 7, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. VVE'NDORFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DELIVERY APPARATUS FOR PAPER-ROLLS.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,257, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed April 7, 1899. Serial No. 712.139. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,"HENRY J. WENDORFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Delivery Apparatus for Paper-Rolls, of which the following is a specification.

The paper upon which newspapers are printed is received from the mills in large rolls, and these are delivered from trucks upon the sidewalk adjacent to the place of use. These rolls are sometimes delivered to the subbasement of a building by sidewalkelevators; but usually the rolls are slid down an inclined way from the sidewalk-level to .the subbasement adjacent to the printingmachines.

the incline being supported a few feet above the floor, and as the rolls come down the incline they are grasped by hand in an effort to upend them, so that they can be taken by a truck to the printing-machine. This effort usually results disastrously to at least a portion of the paper at the edge of the roll, the same being damaged and broken.

The object of my invention is to deliver the roll without the risk of injury.

In carrying out my invention I employ an incline of the usual description, and in connection therewith I pivot a swinging frame to a cross or pivot bar at the lower end of the inclined way. This swinging frame is provided with an end plate acting as a stop, and ropes connected with pulleys in the ceiling or other equivalent support hold up the swinging frame, so that as the roll comes down the incline its forward end slides upon' the approximately level frame and stops against the end plate. In this position the frame is lowered by the aforesaid ropes or equivalent devices, and as the frame is lowered the roll is tilted from the incline to an approximately vertical position, resting upon the end plate and upon a rest on the floor. This action is accomplished without the roll being touched by hand. A truck can then be put under the roll and the roll tilted thereon and wheeled off to the press.

In the drawings, Figure l'is a vertical 1ongitudinal section representing my improve- These inclines are not continued to the floor of the subbasement, the end of ment. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, and Fig. 3 a cross-section, of the inclined way with the end of the roll in elevation.

The inclined way A consists of two paral-. lel bars a a and cross or connecting bars I). This inclined way extends from the sidewalklevel B down into the subbasement, and the lower end is supported upon standards 0 c, said parallel bars resting upon the pivot-bar d, extending across between the standards, the standards being secured to the subbasement-floorin any desired manner. The swinging' frame D is composed of the parallel bars 6 e, which are in line with the parallel bars a, a, and cross-bars f connect the parallel I prefer to secure the metal plates 3 4 at the lower ends of the parallel bars a 0/, these metal plates being perforated for the pivot-bar d, and I prefer to pass the pivot-bar (1 through the ends of the parallel bars e e and to employ pivot-plates 5 6 along the outer sides of the parallel bars to strengthen the swinging frame and to provide metal bearings to take the strain and wear of the swinging frame upon the pivot-bar, the said plates and the swinging frame forming a hinge-joint with the parallel bars a a. The outer or free end of the swinging frame is made with a stop-plate h. This plate is preferably of L shape, with a member extending underneath the cross-bar (shown in section, Fig. 1) and with the other member extending above the surface of the parallel bars 6 e. This same end plate It is made with side extensions 2, to which eyes are connected for ropes k, which pass over sheaves on the ceiling or some overhead support. In the operation of the device the swinging frame is held in an approximately horizontal position by the ropes or other supporting device, and as the roll of paper comes down the incline the lower end runs upon the swinging frame and stops against the end plate h. In this position the end plate is lowered with the roll of paper, the said frame and roll assuming the position shown in Fig. 1 by dotted lines, the roll being tilted over into almost a vertical position and standing on one end.

I have shown at i a rib on the floor, which, with the end plate h of the swinging frame, forms a convenient support for the roll in its almost vertical position, although I do not limit myself to the use of this rib In the almost vertical position of the roll of papera truck can be run under the edge and the roll tilted onto the truck and conveyed away to the printing-press, the roll not being damaged in its descent into the subbasement in this manner.

lVhile I have shown the plate 2 and the ropes 7c, connected therewith, as the most efficient and least expensive means for operating the swinging frame, I do not limit myself thereto, as other mechanical devices effecting the same object might be employed to advantage.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination with the inclined way composed of parallel bars and cross-bars, of supporting-standards and a pivot-bar at the upper end thereof to which the inclined way is connected, a swinging frame composed of parallel and cross bars mounted on the pivotbar of the standard and forming a continuation of the inclined way and having an end plate at its free end, means for supporting said swinging frame in an approximately horizontal position to receive the roll of paper and for lowering the said swinging frame to upend the roll of paper, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with the parallel bars a a, the cross-bars Z), the standards 0 c and the pivot-bar (Z, of the parallel bars 6 c and cross-bars f pivoted to the bar d, the plates 3 4 upon the parallel bars a a, the plates 5 6 upon the parallel bars e e, the end plate h across the free end of the swinging frame and extending beneath the end thereof and having side extensions 2 and the supportingropes or equivalent devices it for maintaining the swinging frame in an approximately horizontal position to receive the descending roll of paper and to lower and upend the same upon the floor, substantially as set forth..

Signed by me this 3d day of April, 1899.

II. J. \VENDORFF. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL. 

